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30 March 2026 – Managing Money 3: Saving as the Key to Self-empowerment

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. I know, I know, you see the heading above and you say to yourself, “I’m barely making ends meet and they want…

23 March 2026 – Managing Money 2: Good Debt, Bad Dept

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. How are you getting on with drawing up your budget and keeping track of expenses? I have an excel file on my…

16 March 2026 – Managing Money 1: Make a Budget

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You probably think you have so little, there’s no point in thinking about “managing” it. Only rich people do that, right? Wrong. Smart money…

09 March 2026 – What to do First

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. In these first newsletters of the year, we are discussing the basic building blocks for finding order in your life, for the…

02 March 2026 – Getting Control of Time

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We all find ourselves exclaiming about how time flies. Heavens, it’s March already! Here’s a comment from a first-year student a few…

23 February 2026 – Managing Time and Money

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. The academic year has started. Classes are running. You’re getting the hang of what is where and how to get there. Other things have…

16 February 2026 – Feeding Yourself on a Small Budget

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. For some of you, this may be the first time that you have had to look after yourself when it comes to…

09 February 2026 – Yes You Can

If you’d rather listen to this letter, click here. We’re continuing a conversation that actually started three weeks ago, on 19  January, when we sent you a slightly longer newsletter titled “It’s up…

02 February 2026 – The Double-Edged Sword of Freedom

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. The beginning of the year is a topsy-turvy time, full of excitement and a little bit of fear, full of people and events and…

26 January 2026 – Where are you going, and why?

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. 2026 is getting under way! You may have received wishes for a year “full of things that have never been.” Such a lovely thought.…
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